Clinical Documentation Specialist

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time, 38 hours per weekLocation: Bankstown-Lidcombe HospitalPosition Classification: Health Manager Level 1Remuneration: $84,436.00 - $112,331.00 per annum Requisition ID: REQ Application Close Date: 16/11/2025Interview Date Range: 19/11/2025 – 26/11/2025Contact Details: Sneh Sharma | | About the Opportunity Are you passionate about improving healthcare quality through precision and collaboration? As a key link between clinicians and coding teams, the Clinical Documentation Specialist conducts detailed reviews of medical records to ensure all diagnoses, procedures, and care provided are accurately captured. Working collaboratively with doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, and coding staff, the position leads continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen clinical documentation and data integrity. The ideal candidate will be an analytical and confident communicator, skilled in engaging senior clinicians, solving complex problems, and contributing to a culture of quality and innovation. What You’ll be Doing The Clinical Documentation Specialist role is responsible for conducting ongoing documentation reviews to facilitate improvements to clinical documentation to support quality care and accurate clinical coding to reflect the level of service provided to patients. Where You'll Be Working Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital is located in the city of Bankstown and is in one of the most multicultural local government areas (LGA) in Australia. This hospital has tertiary affiliations with three universities and offers a range of roles and experiences to employees. The hospital receives highly diverse presentations in ED as well as having general medical and surgical services and sub-specialty services across the hospital. Working at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital is a truly rewarding experience which allows you to make a real difference to the multicultural community. Being part of the team at Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital means you will be a part of a friendly and enthusiastic group of people where you will be truly valued in your work. Being a smaller hospital, you are seen as part of the wider Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital Family where you are known to the other staff and your patients. Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital is like no other in our district and offers unmatched career development and progression opportunities and the hospital focuses on regular training and upskilling. There are regular occasions for working in more senior role and you will have a great management team who dedicate themselves to providing safe, quality patient care through ensuring they have a cohesive and dynamic team. How to Apply To be considered for this position, please ensure you address the below questions as thoroughly as possible. View our application guide for information on how to respond to criteria and improve your application. Relevant tertiary qualifications or recent extensive working experience as a Clinician, Health Information Manager, Clinical Coder, Clinical Coding Educator/Auditor or documentation improvement specialist. Describe your experience conducting clinical documentation reviews in a hospital setting, and how you ensure accuracy and completeness in medical records? Describe a time when you successfully implemented a change or improvement within a healthcare setting. How did you communicate the change and engage with stakeholders to gain their support and ensure its successful implementation? Provide an example of how you used your analytical and organisational skills to improve clinical documentation, interpret complex data sets, and contribute to Activity Based Management or health service funding outcomes. Need more information?1) Click here for the Position Description2) Find out more about applying for this position Additional Information Salary Packaging South Western Sydney Local Health District employees are able to enjoy the benefits of salary packing. Visit Smart Salary for more details. Health & Fitness South Western Sydney Local Health District employees receive discounted Gym Membership/Corporate Wellbeing Programs, including Fitness Passport. Transforming Your Experience TYE is SWSLHDs key strategy to always positively transform your, our patients, our consumers, our staffs and our communities experiences across our organisation and services. Our vision is that our care is always safe, high quality and personalised and all our staff are supported and empowered to achieve their full potential. SWSLHD upholds the CORE Values – Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment. To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have an Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency. South Western Sydney Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don’t just accept differences but we honour and support it. Committed to providing a working environment that thrives and values diversity, we encourage people of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background, people with a disability and people from the LGBTQI+ community to apply. SWSLHD is committed to driving a child safe culture that upholds children and young people’s rights. We strive to ensure children and young people feel safe, supported and included in their care. Existing staff of SWSLHD and those seeking employment are required to take the safety, welfare and wellbeing of children and young people seriously while taking action to keep them safe from harm and abuse. Connect with us on 'X' , Facebook and LinkedIn . #J-18808-Ljbffr